If you use Panda Antivirus you’ll want to take note of this and perform an update immediately.

US-CERT is warning that they learned of a buffer overflow vulnerability in Panda Antivirus.

This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system by passing a crafted “.EXE” file to the Panda Antivirus file parsing engine.

Panda has already pushed an update that closes this vulnerability. You can sure you have it by running the built in update mechanism in Panda Antivirus.

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